The Chaos Arena: Book 2 of The New Scions - Paperback

Some arenas test your strength. Some test your soul.

Alexis Rain should be celebrating. Three weeks ago, she defeated Phthonos and saved the people she loves. But victory left scars that don't show - a secret deal that armed a dangerous man, a cosmic debt owed to a force older than the gods, and the crushing weight of guilt she refuses to share with anyone.

Not even Jamie Keats, the oracle who sees through every lie she tells - except the ones that matter most.

When divine artifacts begin vanishing from sacred sites across the globe and Scion powers start flickering like dying flames, Alexis and her team are drawn into a conspiracy that dwarfs anything they've faced. Someone is methodically severing the connection between the divine and mortal realms. The trail leads through ancient forges and impossible dimensions, to allies older than civilization and enemies whose convictions make them more dangerous than any monster.

At the heart of it all stands an adversary unlike any Alexis has encountered - not a madman or a tyrant, but a true believer who genuinely thinks destroying the bond between gods and mortals will save everyone. His philosophy is seductive. His power is overwhelming. And he's been engineered specifically to defeat her.

When the cosmos demands that the question of Scions' right to exist be settled through sacred combat in a place called the Chaos Arena, Alexis must fight not just for survival, but for the fundamental idea that love between worlds is worth preserving.

Battered, bleeding, and losing, she'll discover that the line between conviction and doubt is razor-thin - and that the greatest power isn't darkness or light.

It's the choice to keep fighting when every voice, including your own, tells you to stop.

The Chaos Arena is the second book in the New Scions trilogy.